Post by Dale on Oct 9, 2003 8:32:31 GMT -5
"A federally licensed firearms dealer in Connecticut is upset the Google search engine will accept ads for pornographic websites that illegally show their materials to underage children but will not accept ads from licensed gun dealers selling a legal product to adults. A spokesman for Google said Monday that the policy is 'part of our terms and conditions.'
'I'm sick and tired of having the good guys be discriminated against,' Rick Millo, owner of Valley Firearms in Shelton, Conn., told CNSNews.com Monday.
Millo had subscribed to the Google AdWords service to promote his online gun sales and auctions. The AdWords service places colored bars above the search engine results and colored boxes to the right of the results that feature advertisers who have paid for their ads to appear whenever Google users search certain terms.
Under federal law, Millo can legally sell guns over the Internet to a person in another state as long as he ships the gun to another federally licensed firearms dealer and local laws do not prohibit such sales. The customer may only retrieve the gun after completing the mandatory federal background check and complying with any local laws regarding its ownership and possession.
Millo originally thought the AdWords service was 'a great thing for a small business.'
'When I read that you could set your own price range of advertising, in other words, you pick how much you want to spend a day on advertising...it was great because, for a small business, that's perfect,' Millo said. 'You can advertise nationally without getting into a big ad campaign.'"
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www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200310/CUL20031007c.html
'I'm sick and tired of having the good guys be discriminated against,' Rick Millo, owner of Valley Firearms in Shelton, Conn., told CNSNews.com Monday.
Millo had subscribed to the Google AdWords service to promote his online gun sales and auctions. The AdWords service places colored bars above the search engine results and colored boxes to the right of the results that feature advertisers who have paid for their ads to appear whenever Google users search certain terms.
Under federal law, Millo can legally sell guns over the Internet to a person in another state as long as he ships the gun to another federally licensed firearms dealer and local laws do not prohibit such sales. The customer may only retrieve the gun after completing the mandatory federal background check and complying with any local laws regarding its ownership and possession.
Millo originally thought the AdWords service was 'a great thing for a small business.'
'When I read that you could set your own price range of advertising, in other words, you pick how much you want to spend a day on advertising...it was great because, for a small business, that's perfect,' Millo said. 'You can advertise nationally without getting into a big ad campaign.'"
You can read the complete story at:
www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200310/CUL20031007c.html